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Top Ten States Landfilling PVC

State

Number of Landfills

Amount of PVC Landfilled (tons)

California

161

328,260

Texas

175

176,896

New York

26

116,088

Ohio

44

100,509

Illinois

51

98,896

Michigan

52

96,241

Florida

100

76,817

Georgia

60

69,177

Pennsylvania

49

60,844

New Jersey

60

56,166

North Carolina

41

54,842

Indiana

35

52,986

Washington

21

49,128

Virginia

67

48,636

Maryland

20

42,722

Remaining States *

805

610,553

       Total

1,767

2,038,761


Sources and Notes:
  Estimates derived from Kaufman (2004) for 2002. The amount of PVC landfilled by each state was calculated by (1) assuming that the percent PVC content of municipal solid waste (0.62%) estimated by the USEPA (2003) is representative of the typical percentage of PVC in the waste stream; (2) assuming that post-consumer recycling of PVC in MSW is zero; (3) multiplying the average percent PVC in the waste (0.62%) by the total waste generated in that state according to Table 4 in Kaufman (2004); and (4) multiplying this value (the total PVC disposed in the state) by the percent of waste landfilled after recycling as shown in column 2 above. The percent of PVC landfilled after recycling was determined by dividing the total amount of waste landfilled in a state (provided in Table 4 of Kaufman 2004) by the total waste disposed of (after recycling).

* AL, AK, and MT did not report any data (see Appendix B).

 




 

 

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